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Archaeology & Art posts on X about art, collection, culture, hermitage museum the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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"Cat at a Table. Artist: Ruskin Spear RA. (1911-1990) Medium: oil on board; XX x XX cm. Credit & Collection: Bonhams"
X Link 2025-11-06T04:30Z 729.8K followers, 85.3K engagements

"Kukeri ritual performers in towering fur costumes and animal masks Bulgaria. Photograph via Lelejskagora / Tumblr Blog; photographer unknown. Date: 1992. ()"
X Link 2025-11-22T17:52Z 729.8K followers, 95.8K engagements

"In his personal notebook and in contemporary accounts the condemned men were sometimes referred to not as criminals or victims but as his patients. even more surreal is his daily life outside the executions. when he was not carrying out the popes orders he worked as a souvenir merchant. he successfully sold painted umbrellas to tourists in rome many of whom probably never realised they were buying keepsakes from the vaticans official executioner"
X Link 2025-12-01T21:02Z 729.8K followers, 4.5M engagements

"Standing Cat () Creator unknown. Today Id like to share a piece that Ive been trying to identify for a long time. Despite using reverse image search style analysis and various other methods I havent been able to find the artists name or the date. Perhaps you can help. If you have any information I would appreciate it if you could share a reference URL or the name of the work in the comments"
X Link 2025-12-04T13:00Z 729.8K followers, 61.9K engagements

"Perfume bottle; Culture: Sarmatian; Place of origin: Black Sea region; Date: 2nd century BC; Medium: gold with garnet cabochons; Collection: The State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg"
X Link 2025-08-19T18:00Z 729.2K followers, 29.5K engagements

"That orb is the oddest part of Salvator Mundi. Leonardo knew a solid sphere should flip and wildly distort the robe behind it he wrote about such refraction in his notebooks. Here he paints a rockcrystal sphere the kind Milanese princes collected and many believed was ancient ice from the Alps so the drapery stays almost calm. Only the palm shows a faint double edge a tiny lens effect he lets slip. The three pinpoints on the orb have been read as reflections from multiple lights in his studio others see a quiet nod to the Trinity"
X Link 2025-10-25T10:02Z 729.2K followers, 100.8K engagements

"Scene from the ballad The Dragon of Wantley by John June. Date: c. 17441775 AD. Medium: Etching on paper. Dimensions: XXXX X cm. Collection: The British Museum London. Currently not on display. John June turns the famous Dragon of Wantley into a courtroom satire in disguise catching the exact instant when a spiky village champion humiliates a monster grown fat on other peoples wealth: ".A tiny armoured figure bristling with spikes leans back and drives his heel into the swollen hindquarters of a dragon. The creature arches round in pain wings spread wide flames curling from its mouth while"
X Link 2025-11-24T18:52Z 729.2K followers, 12.6K engagements

"By the mid nineteenth century the inside of the Colosseum functioned almost like a vertical botanical garden. When the English physician and amateur botanist Richard Deakin surveyed the ruin in the 1850s he counted XXX different species sprouting from cracks ledges and collapsed masonry nearly doubling earlier Italian catalogues of the site. Some were familiar Mediterranean plants but others were so uncommon that botanists struggled to explain how they had arrived since they were documented nowhere else in Europe. see:"
X Link 2025-11-27T04:30Z 729.2K followers, 37.1K engagements

"Tanuki (Japanese raccoon dog) netsuke. Artist: Wahei workshop (active c. 18801910). Culture: Japan. Date: late 19th century AD. Medium: Kyoto ware earthenware with red and brown glazes. Collection: Toledo Museum of Art"
X Link 2025-11-29T18:00Z 729.2K followers, 17K engagements

"Brandt had Stonehenge in mind for years and waited specifically for snow. The chance came with the notorious Big Freeze of 1947 the harshest British winter in over a century when deep snow coal shortages and power cuts shut down large parts of the country. Picture Post commissioned the image for a special issue on the national crisis and placed it on the cover under the headline "Where stands Britain" 2nd Image: Picture Post April XX 1947 cover. Stock Photo"
X Link 2025-11-29T20:01Z 729.2K followers, 13.1K engagements

"The world's first known vending machine was designed by the Greek engineer Heron (Hero) of Alexandria in 1stcentury AD Alexandria. it wasn't for snacks it dispensed holy water. Worshippers inserted a coin which hit a pan attached to a lever and opened a valve letting out a specific amount of water. when the coin slid off the valve shut. So this device was created to ensure people didn't take more holy water than they paid for"
X Link 2025-11-30T01:10Z 729.1K followers, 25.1K engagements

"Seated Puppy. Culture: Jalisco West Mexico. Date: c. XXX BCAD XXX (Late Pre-Classic Period). Medium: Ceramic buffware with ochre paint. Collection: The Walters Art Museum Baltimore"
X Link 2025-12-01T16:36Z 729.2K followers, 9358 engagements

"common perception assumes total freedom but ancient athletes often wore a specific restraint called a kynodesme. this was a leather string tied around the foreskin to secure the penis against the body. it prevented the genitals from flapping during the race and kept the athlete socially presentable even while technically nude"
X Link 2025-12-01T21:07Z 729.1K followers, 127.3K engagements

"Illustration of a demonic figure (Folio 70r). From the manuscript Bellicorum instrumentorum liber (Book of Warfare Devices). Artist: Johannes de Fontana. Date: c. 14201430 AD. Medium: Ink on parchment. Collection: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich (Cod. icon. 242)"
X Link 2025-12-02T15:00Z 729.1K followers, 16.6K engagements

"Bronze Statuette of a Sleeping Puppy. Culture: Greek or Roman (Hellenistic period). Place of discovery: Rome Italy. Date: c. 33230 BC. Medium: Bronze. Dimensions: H. XXX cm; W. X cm; D. XXX cm. Collection & Photo Credit: The Walters Art Museum Baltimore"
X Link 2025-12-02T16:30Z 729.1K followers, 26.3K engagements

"This obelisk which millions of tourists take selfies with today was the last thing Saint Peter saw as he was being crucified upside down. Brought from Egypt by Emperor Caligula it was erected in Neros Circus on the site where the Vatican now stands a place where the first Christians - including Saint Peter himself - were tortured crucified and burned"
X Link 2025-12-02T22:14Z 729.2K followers, 23.8K engagements

"Finger-ring. Culture/period: Late Medieval . Date: ca. 1400. Place of origin: Halkida Greece (vvoia (island) Medium: Sapphire gold . Collection: British Museum"
X Link 2025-12-03T00:25Z 729.2K followers, 15.2K engagements

"Pottery bowl containing paint once belonging to a fresco painter. Period: Roman. Date: A.D. 1st century. Place of origin: Egypt"
X Link 2025-12-03T00:26Z 729.2K followers, 13.7K engagements

"Two Bats Flying. Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (17601849; sheet from a sketchbook associated with the Hokusai School). Date: c. 18301850. Period: Edo period. Medium: Ink wash and color on thin handmade paper. Collection: Library of Congress Washington D.C"
X Link 2025-12-03T20:00Z 729.2K followers, 23.9K engagements

"Delacroix was a known user of the pigment known as Mummy Brown in the 19th century; therefore it is safe to assume that the shadows and certain sections of this painting may contain this pigment. This paint was produced by grinding up actual ancient Egyptian mummies mixed with white pitch and myrrh creating a rich transparent brown hue that 19th-century artists favored for shading and flesh tones. This practice continued until awareness of the pigment's true source spread and material scarcity increased; indeed some artists who discovered the origin belatedly buried their tubes of paint in"
X Link 2025-12-04T10:13Z 729.2K followers, 41.4K engagements

"Wedding Rock petroglyphs Washington circa 1955"
X Link 2025-12-04T22:59Z 729.1K followers, 14.1K engagements

"Three men masked as Diablos. Photographer: Ruth D. Lechuga 1960s. Collection: Ruth D. Lechuga Center for Folk Art Studies at the Franz Mayer Museum Mexico City"
X Link 2025-12-05T15:00Z 729.1K followers, 19.4K engagements

"In the intricate world of Mexican folk festivals Diablo is not a monster to be feared but a satirical representative of social justice. The specific masks you see here with their twisted horns and exaggerated leather tongues were often crafted by Indigenous artisans to caricature the Spanish colonizers. The protruding tongue is not merely a grotesque detail; some anthropologists have suggested that it was historically used to mock foreign invaders symbolizing their 'strange' language and insatiable appetite for land resources. By donning these masks the poorest villagers could flip the"
X Link 2025-12-05T15:11Z 729.1K followers, 14.3K engagements

"Human Figurines (Funerary Idols). Culture: Early Bronze Age I (Proto-Urban Period). Place of origin: Bab edh-Dhra Jordan. Date: c. 33003100 BC. Medium: Unfired clay. Collection: The British Museum London (related Bab edh-Dhra material is also held in Jordanian museums)"
X Link 2025-12-06T22:30Z 729.2K followers, 24.2K engagements

"At a glance this piece looks like a nocturnal bat with its wings spread wide. But step a little closer and youll find a surprise: tucked away in the rough texture of the wings is a serene stylized human face. Thats where the title really clicks. While the peaceful mask suggests a deep slumber the creature itselfa symbol of the night and erratic flight--captures the wandering restless nature of the sleepers subconscious. Czech artist Eva Vlaskov didn't just rely on shape to tell this story; she wove the chemistry of the glass right into the narrative. That hypnotic neon green glow isn't a"
X Link 2025-12-10T20:00Z 729.1K followers, 5749 engagements

"Gold wedding ring set with an emerald and a garnet Byzantine Empire 10th century AD. Collection: The State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg"
X Link 2025-07-30T20:59Z 729.5K followers, 51.9K engagements

"Mans wooden headgear discovered in Burial Mound X at Pazyryk Altai Mountains southern Siberia dating to the late 4thearly 3rd century BC. Currently housed in The State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg"
X Link 2025-08-02T19:30Z 729.6K followers, 55.9K engagements

"Skeleton Dance Costume. Culture: Tibet. Date: late 19th or early 20th century AD. Medium: Silk and flannel. Dimensions: overall XX x XX in. (177.8 x XXXXX cm). Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. Gift of Mrs. Edward A. Nis 1934"
X Link 2025-11-23T16:10Z 729.2K followers, 36.5K engagements

"Gold amulet with carnelian phallus. Culture: Bosporan Kingdom. Place of origin: Northern Black Sea region probably around the Cimmerian Bosporus. Date: 3rd century BC. Medium: Gold and carved carnelian. Now on display at the State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg Russia"
X Link 2025-11-26T19:12Z 729.6K followers, 16.9K engagements

"Monks in a Monastery Courtyard Storm over a Lake in the Background. Artist: Franz Ludwig Catel (German 17781856). Date: 1856 AD. Medium: Oil on canvas"
X Link 2025-12-02T18:00Z 729.4K followers, 24.8K engagements

"The Wise and Foolish Virgins. Artist: Godfried Schalcken (Dutch 16431706). Date: 1700 AD. Medium: Oil on canvas. Collection: Bayerische Staatsgemldesammlungen Alte Pinakothek Munich"
X Link 2025-12-02T20:00Z 729.3K followers, 13K engagements

"Detail Nero's Torches (Christian Candlesticks) by Henryk Siemiradzki 1876"
X Link 2025-12-02T21:42Z 729.4K followers, 115.5K engagements

"Prize Pig Royal Agricultural Show Cardiff. Artist: Richard Whitford (18211890). Date: 1872. Medium: Oil on canvas. Collection: Museum of English Rural Life Reading. To the modern viewer this pig seems almost comical. Its body is a massive nearly perfect rectangle of flesh balanced precariously on legs that appear far too small. This style often categorized today as naive or folk art was entirely intentional and represents a peculiar yet serious genre in 19th century British culture: the livestock portrait. These paintings were the era's ultimate status symbol for wealthy landowners. During"
X Link 2025-12-04T20:00Z 729.5K followers, 36.3K engagements

"It's like a real-life version of the Hall of Faces from Game of Thrones. Extraordinary"
X Link 2025-12-07T20:38Z 729.4K followers, 94.1K engagements

"A fabulous grotesque Burgonet for the armor of Guidobaldo della Rovvera Duke of Urbino attributed to Filippo Negroli Milan Italy ca. 1535. Collection: State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg"
X Link 2025-10-16T21:20Z 729.6K followers, 35.6K engagements

"Kimono (Kosode) mid-19th century Japan circa 1840-1860. Kyoto Living Craft House Mumeisha. Made from silk with hand-painted skeletal motifs. The kosode features a design inspired by traditional Japanese ghost stories"
X Link 2024-10-08T16:30Z 729.8K followers, 326.4K engagements

"Kulah Khud* helmet steel and gold with intricate decorative motifs Iran (Persia) 17th century AD. Collection: Hermitage Museum. *The Kulah Khud helmet is representative of the Safavid period (15011736) a significant era in Iranian history noted for advancements in metallurgy and weapon craftsmanship"
X Link 2025-05-16T20:59Z 729.7K followers, 26.3K engagements

"Gold perfume bottle decorated with garnets originating from the Black Sea Region Sarmatian culture 2nd century BC. Currently part of the collection at the State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg"
X Link 2025-06-12T22:00Z 729.7K followers, 43.1K engagements

"Pair of gold earrings shaped as figures of Nike mid-4th century BC originating from the Pavlovsky Barrow near Kerch Crimea. Collection: Hermitage Museum"
X Link 2025-07-01T19:30Z 729.7K followers, 111.2K engagements

"Scarabeoid Intaglio depicting a Griffin and Astragal originating from Ionia dating to the 5th century BC. Medium: Rock crystal and gold. Currently in the collection of the Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg"
X Link 2025-07-16T18:00Z 729.7K followers, 68.3K engagements

"Scythian Tattoos from Kurgan II Pazyryk Altai. Depiction of animal and hybrid creature tattoos preserved on the upper right arm and various parts of the body of a Scythian male dating to the 5th century BC. Original skin fragment (left) detailed outline and general body placement drawing according to S.I. Rudenko (right). Photo courtesy of the Hermitage Museum"
X Link 2025-07-20T12:00Z 729.7K followers, 153.7K engagements

"Photo courtesy of the Hermitage Museum"
X Link 2025-07-20T12:00Z 729.7K followers, 6535 engagements

"Coiled snake pendant with chain by Ren Jules Lalique crafted from gold pearls and champlev enamel Paris 1898-1899. Collection: State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg Russia"
X Link 2025-07-28T22:00Z 729.7K followers, 53.8K engagements

"Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod. Japan early 19th century (Edo period). Carved wood. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art"
X Link 2025-09-02T12:30Z 729.8K followers, 2.4M engagements

"Ritual mountaineering axe with heartshaped openwork. Japan. Nanbokucho to Muromachi period 14th century AD. Forged iron head; wooden shaft spiralwrapped with a bronze strip; H XXXXX cm blade XX x XXXX cm. Collection: Nara National Museum. Classified as an Important Cultural Property. Those two hearts are not about romance. In Japan they are inome the boars eye a very old apotropaic sign cut into weapons temple fittings and even windows to draw off misfortune and summon courage. The motif has been in use for well over a millennium and you can still see inome windows at temples like Shjuin in"
X Link 2025-11-12T20:00Z 729.8K followers, 5.8M engagements

"Look closely at the tiny muscle bulging on the forearm just below the elbow. That is the extensor digiti minimi a small muscle that helps extend the little finger. Anatomically this muscle becomes especially active and visible when the little finger is extended. Notice how Moses is lifting his pinky That is why Michelangelo sculpted that specific muscle in tension. This kind of insane biological accuracy came from his nights spent dissecting corpses at the hospital of Santo Spirito in Florence where he traded a wooden crucifix and other artwork for access to dead bodies to master the"
X Link 2025-11-19T09:00Z 729.8K followers, 1.7M engagements

"Clay magical figurine of a bound woman often called the Louvre Doll. Culture: Roman Egypt. Date: 3rd to 4th century AD. Medium: unbaked clay with copper alloy needles lead tablet and terracotta vase. Height: XXX cm. Collection: Muse du Louvre Department of Egyptian Antiquities Paris"
X Link 2025-11-23T13:03Z 729.8K followers, 75.8K engagements

"Three-Thousand-Year-Old Two-Legged Vessel. Culture: Ancient Near Eastern Iran. Period: Iron Age II. Place of origin: Northwestern Iran southwest of the Caspian Sea. Date: circa. 1000 to XXX BC. Medium: Clay earthenware. Dimensions: H. XX cm. Max. diam. XXXX cm. Collection: Brooklyn Museum New York"
X Link 2025-11-26T16:46Z 729.8K followers, 76.9K engagements

"The Roman appetite for wild-beast shows helped drive the North African elephant to extinction"
X Link 2025-11-27T13:24Z 729.8K followers, 37.6K engagements

"Methane and hydrogen sulfide gases would accumulate in the sealed sewer channels below and occasionally ignite causing flames to burst up through the seat openings. since the romans didn't understand the chemistry they attributed these sudden blasts to demons living in the sewers"
X Link 2025-11-27T23:43Z 729.8K followers, 3.4M engagements

"Toy Mounted Knight. Culture: Medieval Europe. Date: 13th to 14th century AD. Medium: Cast bronze with a modern wooden jousting lance. Dimensions: H. XXX cm W. XXX cm D. XXX cm. Place of origin: Europe. Collection: The Walters Art Museum Baltimore"
X Link 2025-11-28T14:00Z 729.8K followers, 54.4K engagements

"Stonehenge under Snow. Photographer: Bill Brandt. Date: 1947. Medium: Gelatin silver print. Collection: The Museum of Modern Art New York"
X Link 2025-11-29T20:00Z 729.8K followers, 20.9K engagements

"This photograph takes us to Humla one of the most remote districts high in the Himalayas near the Tibetan border: Ritual Masked Dancers. Location: Limitang Village Humla Nepal. Date: 1985 AD. Medium: Selenium toned gelatin silver print. Photographer: Kevin Bubriski"
X Link 2025-11-30T13:00Z 729.8K followers, 33.4K engagements

"Skull Mask (ritual dance mask). Origin: Bhutan. Date: c. 18501920. Medium: Carved and painted wood with metal eye fittings. Collection: Science Museum Group London (image via Wellcome Collection). ".These dancing skeletons are not merely theatrical performers but serve as a rehearsal for the moment of death specifically the intermediate state known as the bardo. the terrifying deities encountered during this transition are actually projections of the deceased person's own mind and if one recognizes these skeletal visions as reflections of their own intellect rather than external demons they"
X Link 2025-12-01T16:37Z 729.8K followers, 35.6K engagements

"Gold and stone inlaid Ba bird Egypt 3rd century BC from The Walters Art Museum"
X Link 2025-12-03T00:28Z 729.8K followers, 45.8K engagements

"Two Kittens. Artist: Kawano Kaoru (19161965). Date: c. 1950s AD. Medium: Japanese woodblock print. Credit & Collection: Bonhams"
X Link 2025-12-03T15:00Z 729.8K followers, 25.4K engagements

"Fresco of a figure wearing an Anubis mask. Origin: The assembly hall (Ekklesiasterion) of the Temple of Isis Pompeii Italy. Date: 1st century AD. Medium: Fresco painting. Collection: Naples National Archaeological Museum Naples. Photo Credit: @carolemadge ** This striking fresco set against a vivid Pompeian red background offers a window into the secret rituals dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis. Her worship was immensely popular across the Roman Empire. The figure shown here is not the jackal headed god Anubis himself. Instead it is a priest or a participant wearing a mask impersonating"
X Link 2025-12-04T15:00Z 729.8K followers, 43.6K engagements

"Detail Pandemonium. Artist: John Martin (17891854). Date: 1841 AD. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: XXX x XXX cm. Collection: Muse du Louvre Paris. This dramatic canvas visualizes Pandemonium the capital of Hell as described in John Miltons epic poem Paradise Lost. We see Satan depicted in the foreground as a classical hero with spear and shield standing on a dark precipice. He gestures toward the immense infernal palace rising from the depths alongside a river of fire. The entire scene is characterized by a stark contrast between the shadowy foreground and the eerie brilliant illumination"
X Link 2025-12-04T18:00Z 729.8K followers, 20.5K engagements

"One of the oldest photographs of Rome showing the Colosseum. The picture was taken by Richard Jones and dates back to 1846. Colorized by me"
X Link 2025-12-04T22:48Z 729.8K followers, 19.2K engagements

"14000 year old bison sculptures Le Tuc dAudoubert cave Ariege France"
X Link 2025-12-04T22:56Z 729.8K followers, 60.9K engagements

"The Ming Tombs in Nanjing China circa 1869"
X Link 2025-12-04T22:56Z 729.8K followers, 207.9K engagements

"Excavations at the Ishtar Gate Iraq circa 1933"
X Link 2025-12-04T22:59Z 729.8K followers, 20.1K engagements

"Book of Hours of Charles dAngoulme (Heures de Charles dAngoulme). Library & Location: Bibliothque nationale de France Paris Latin 1173. Page: Folio 3r May calendar page. Artist: Mostly attributed to Robinet Testard (Here the artist adapted a design by the printmaker Israhel van Meckenem). Date: c. AD 1485 Technique: Illumination (miniature) on parchment. It is not a monster or a mythological figure it is a costume. At first glance this image evokes a legendary forest spirit a creature risen from the swamp or the mythological Green Man (when I first saw it I thought it was a green man). The"
X Link 2025-12-05T13:00Z 729.8K followers, 28.3K engagements

"Set of five inscribed dog figurines. Culture: Neo-Assyrian. Place of origin: North Palace of Ashurbanipal Nineveh Iraq. Date: c. XXX BC. Medium: Fired clay with traces of pigment. Collection: The British Museum London"
X Link 2025-12-05T16:30Z 729.8K followers, 17.6K engagements

"after marrying the american socialite linda lee thomas in paris in 1919 cole porter spent the 1920s travelling europe with her. on a honeymoon trip through italy they visited ravenna. when they stepped into the tiny mausoleum of galla placidia porter was struck by the dome: a deep blue vault with roughly nine hundred gold stars and a cross in the centre lit by pale alabaster windows. It is said that this starry ceiling and then stepping outside into the dazzling daylight gave him both the inspiration and the title for the song Night and Day. Lets start the day with this song good morning:"
X Link 2025-12-06T07:45Z 729.8K followers, 244K engagements

"Depictions of Demons (Divs) from a Divination Book on Magic and Astrology. Culture: Iran (Late Qajar Period). Date: 1921. Medium: Ink and watercolor on paper. Collection: Princeton University Library Islamic Manuscripts Collection"
X Link 2025-12-06T13:02Z 729.8K followers, 41.1K engagements

"Isometric Plan of a Roman Urban House (Domus). Depicts the architectural standard of the Late Republic/Early Empire (c. 1st Century BC 1st Century AD). Pen and ink textbook illustration. Source: This specific diagram is a 1947 lithograph by Genevieve Foster widely used in textbooks on ancient Rome and based on standard reconstructions popularized in works like James Henry Breasteds classic textbook Ancient Times: A History of the Early World (first published 1916)"
X Link 2025-12-06T16:30Z 729.8K followers, 36.6K engagements

"Seraphim I. Artist: Dan Hillier. Date: 2022. Medium: Screenprint (Victorian steel engraving collage) Collection: Private Collection"
X Link 2025-12-07T13:00Z 729.8K followers, 37.4K engagements

"Cancer (The Crab). Artist: Johfra Bosschart. Series: The Zodiac. Date: 19741975 Medium: Oil on panel. Collection: Private Collection (Originals commissioned by Verkerke Reproductions)"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:00Z 729.8K followers, 23.8K engagements

"Basically they trapped nuclear energy in a perfume bottle for aesthetic purposes. Glass manufacturers discovered that adding up to X% uranium dioxide to the melt was a way to achieve this transparency and color-changing ability. It looks like oily yellow Vaseline under normal light (hence the name Vaseline glass) but under ultraviolet light the uranium electrons react and emit a bright green fluorescence. While uranium is associated with nuclear power and danger today during the Art Deco era it was the ultimate luxury additive. Governments confiscated uranium supplies for nuclear projects"
X Link 2025-12-07T20:17Z 729.8K followers, 62.8K engagements

"look closely at the bottom tier of this thing. while the top shows guys peacefully sewing shirts and milking sheep the bottom is a straight up nightmare with griffins tearing horses apart and lions attacking wild beasts"
X Link 2025-12-07T20:43Z 729.7K followers, 45.8K engagements

"It is the 9th century. You are a member of the elite Varangian Guard protecting the Emperor in Constantinople. You are standing inside the Hagia Sophia the most magnificent building on Earth amidst golden mosaics and holy incense. And you are incredibly bored. So you take out your knife and carve runes into the marble balustrade. Not a prayer not a poem. Just "Halvdan made these runes." Essentially: "Halvdan was here." A millennium later empires have fallen religions have shifted but the universal human experience of being bored at work remains exactly the same"
X Link 2025-12-08T10:50Z 729.8K followers, 62K engagements

"Archaeologists found this skull in a Venetian plague pit with a brick forced into its mouth. At the time survivors believed in "shroud-eaters"----vampires thought to spread the plague from the grave by chewing on their burial linens. I know it's a bit gross but forensics explains the truth behind the legend in a simple way: As a body decomposes bacteria in the stomach produce gas forcing dark "purge fluid" up the throat. this fluid dissolves the linen shroud around the mouthcreating a vacuum effect that actually makes the jaw move. So to medieval gravediggers reopening the pits it looked"
X Link 2025-12-08T10:58Z 729.8K followers, 406.5K engagements

"Nude in the Waves (Nu dans les ondes) by Matisse. Period: Modernism Date: 1938 Medium: Linocut on paper Collection: Featured in various public and private collections including the Bibliothque nationale de France Paris"
X Link 2025-12-08T15:00Z 729.8K followers, 14.7K engagements

"Think of this structure as the ultimate architectural lasagna. Instead of spending a fortune to demolish the outdated medieval bridge engineers in the 1700s took a more pragmatic look at the situation. They decided to simply use the old stonework as scaffolding for the new construction. So when 1901 rolled around they did the exact same thing again layering an iron bridge right on top. Its basically XXX years of "if it ain't broke don't fix itjust build on top of it" logic executed"
X Link 2025-12-09T12:59Z 729.8K followers, 88.9K engagements

"Actually these could be serious security risks. Since the chute led straight outside invaders could sometimes climb up the toilet shaft to breach the castle. Its even said that King Edmund Ironside was assassinated this way in 1016-legend has it an assassin hid in the pit below and stabbed him while he was sitting down"
X Link 2025-12-09T13:05Z 729.8K followers, 95.6K engagements

"Its the ultimate Roman flex because unlike gold which you could melt down and reuse rock crystal has zero intrinsic value if it breaks. Wealthy Romans wore these specifically in the summer because Pliny the Elder wrote that crystal was ice frozen so hard it could never melt so they thought wearing it kept their hands cool during heatwaves. Plus in this piece the face is carved in high relief but because the quartz refracts the light so clearly the expression changes and distorts when the wearer moves their hand. This wasn't just a piece of jewelry; it was a hologram moving on your finger."
X Link 2025-12-09T16:01Z 729.8K followers, 874.1K engagements

"Two female figures playing knucklebones (astragalos). Culture: Campanian Greek (South Italy). Findspot: Capua Campania Italy (said to be from). Date: 330300 BC. Material: Mould-made terracotta (baked clay) with remains of slip and paint. Dimensions: H. XXXX cm W. XX cm D. XXXX cm. Collection: The British Museum London (inv. 18670510.1)"
X Link 2025-12-09T16:30Z 729.8K followers, 19.8K engagements

"Libra Series: Zodiac Series Artist: Johfra Bosschart Date: AD 19741975 Material: Oil on panel Collection: Private Collection"
X Link 2025-12-09T18:00Z 729.8K followers, 12.5K engagements

"Neko (Cat). Artist: Kayama Matazo (Japanese 1927-2004). Medium: Ink color gold and silver on paper. Dimensions: XXXX x XXXX cm. Previously auctioned at Christie's sale Japanese Modern and Contemporary Paintings New York XX May 2000 lot XX where it realised XXXXXXX USD"
X Link 2025-12-09T20:00Z 729.8K followers, 14.7K engagements

"Found in a sealed tomb near Rome this ring was still resting on the finger of a noblewoman named Aebutia Quarta. The face trapped inside the rock crystal isn't her husband's--it's her son Titus Carvilius Gemellus who died at just XX. She had the ring made after his death commissioning the crystal to be carved as a lens so his face would look alive and seem to follow her gaze. She wore his presence on her hand until the very day archaeologists found her"
X Link 2025-12-09T23:23Z 729.8K followers, 1.2M engagements

"Reading Moth by Candlelight. Artist: Fritz Schwimbeck"
X Link 2025-12-10T15:00Z 729.8K followers, 9659 engagements

"Cats of the Louvre / Les Chats du Louvre by Taiy Matsumoto. Colors: Isabelle Merlet Futuropolis / Muse du Louvre (French ed.) VIZ Media (English ed.). This work is part of the "Bande Dessine" (Comics) collection project launched by the Louvre Museum in collaboration with Futuropolis in 2005"
X Link 2025-12-10T16:33Z 729.8K followers, 9572 engagements

"The Louvre had already worked with European artists like Enki Bilal and Nicolas de Crcy. But when they wanted to open up to Japan's massive manga culture one of the first names that came to mind was Taiy Matsumoto known as the "art poet of manga." After taking on the project Matsumoto headed to Paris. The museum management gave him a rare opportunity to tour and examine the space in detail during the off-hours when visitors weren't around. In the silence of that immense palace Matsumoto took notes for days listening to his own footsteps and the "whispers" of the paintings. He mentioned that"
X Link 2025-12-10T16:33Z 729.8K followers, 6644 engagements

"Du Ct de la Cte (Along the Coast) Agns Varda 1958"
X Link 2025-12-10T18:00Z 729.8K followers, 15K engagements

"Restless Sleeper Eva Vlaskov 2002"
X Link 2025-12-10T20:00Z 729.8K followers, 16.2K engagements

"Fragment of a white-ground kylix depicting a Thracian woman involved in the Death of Orpheus. Culture: Attic Greek (attributed to the Pistoxenos Painter). Date: c. 470460 BC. Medium: Ceramic with polychrome painting. Collection: Acropolis Museum Athens. Photo Credit: ArchaiOptix / Wikimedia Commons"
X Link 2025-12-11T13:00Z 729.8K followers, 67.9K engagements

"Adam and Eve (Illustration for Paradise Lost Book V). Artist: Gustave Dor. Date: c. 1866 AD. Medium: Wood engraving. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York"
X Link 2025-12-11T18:00Z 729.8K followers, 12.2K engagements

"Le Prince charmant (Prince Charming) 1948 Ren Magritte. Medium: Gouache on paper. Collection: Private Collection"
X Link 2025-12-11T20:00Z 729.8K followers, 16.4K engagements

"Roman concrete is practically wizardry compared to the materials we use today. They mixed volcanic ash with lime and water--plus seawater in their harbors--creating a chemical reaction that actually makes the structure stronger over time not weaker. So to keep that massive dome from collapsing on their heads they also mastered the density. The base is built from heavy travertine and tuff but as they built upward they switched to super-light volcanic tuff and pumice stone. It's still the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world and it hasn't collapsed in nearly XXXXX years"
X Link 2025-12-11T20:07Z 729.8K followers, 1.5M engagements

"Twenty-sided die with Greek letters (Icosahedron). Culture: PtolemaicRoman Egypt. Place of origin: Egypt. Date: 2nd century BC4th century AD. Material: Faience (glazed quartz ceramic). Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:30Z 729.8K followers, 107.6K engagements

""killing you is easier for me than saying" Caesar needed cash at the start of the civil war so he went straight to the Temple of Saturn where Rome kept the public treasury. When the tribune Metellus tried to block the treasury doors Caesar threatened him and basically said that killing him would be easier than saying it. Metellus backed off and Caesar took the money"
X Link 2025-12-12T00:49Z 729.8K followers, 31.1K engagements

"Holy wisdom: Hagia Sophia. It was completed in only five years. just two engineers/architects isidore and anthemius managing XXXXXX workers with zero modern tech in XXX ad. its still standing 1500 years later. it held the title of the worlds largest cathedral for nearly a millennium. its hard to grasp how old this structure actually is until you look at the timeline. when michelangelo was working on st. peters basilicas dome in the 1500s hagia sophia had already been standing for about 1000 years"
X Link 2025-12-12T09:45Z 729.8K followers, 18.8K engagements

"Skeleton of a Scythian queen and her jewelry found in the Chertomlyk barrow near Nikopol Katerynoslavsk Governorate (today Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Ukraine). Illustration by Vasily A. Prokhorov 1881. Chertomlyk is one of the great royal Scythian mounds about XX metres high and XXX metres across raised near the Dnieper at the end of the 4th century BC. Excavations in the 1860s revealed a deep shaft opening into side chambers with the burials of a king a queen attendants and sacrificed horses surrounded by an extraordinary hoard of Greek-made gold and silver: vessels weapons ornaments"
X Link 2025-11-23T17:51Z 729.8K followers, 55.4K engagements

"The Colossus of Rhodes by Aniwayalone a Digital Art Hobbyist from Spain. Whoever enters Rhodes by ship must pass beneath his gaze. In fact authors such as Strabo Pliny and Philo mainly discuss its height structure and destruction and we know very little about the details of its anatomy"
X Link 2025-11-29T01:26Z 729.8K followers, 6.3M engagements

"View of the main pyramid steps at Teopanzolco. Location: Cuernavaca Morelos Mexico. Culture: Tlahuica and Aztec. Date of structure: c. 11501521 AD. Date of photograph: c. 1875. Photographer: Teobert Maler. Collection: The Getty Museum Los Angeles"
X Link 2025-11-29T16:30Z 729.8K followers, 36.5K engagements

"Animals under a night sky. From: Antoine Vrard LArt de bien vivre et de bien mourir (The Art of Living Well and of Dying Well). Place of printing: Paris. Date: c. 14931494 AD Medium: woodcut printed in black ink with later hand colouring on paper. Collection: Rosenwald Collection Rare Book and Special Collections Division Library of Congress Washington DC"
X Link 2025-12-01T23:58Z 729.8K followers, 24.2K engagements

"Cat in the Moonlight (Chat au clair de lune). Artist: Thophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss/French 18591923). Date: c. 1900. Medium: Charcoal heightened with white chalk on paper"
X Link 2025-12-03T16:30Z 729.8K followers, 19.9K engagements

"Moai at Ranu Rararaku Easter Island circa 1934"
X Link 2025-12-04T22:55Z 729.8K followers, 25.3K engagements

"Temple of Jupiter Baalbek Syria circa 1870"
X Link 2025-12-04T22:57Z 729.8K followers, 34.3K engagements

"The Temple of Concord Valley of the Temples Agrigento Sicily Italy. Photographer: Konrad Helbig (1955). Colorized by archaeologyart"
X Link 2025-12-05T18:00Z 729.8K followers, 31.6K engagements

"Allegory of Greed (Ymago Cupiditatis). Work: Fulgentius metaforalis by John Ridewall. Place of origin: Bavaria Germany. Date: 1424 AD. Medium: Ink and pigments on paper. Collection: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican Library) Pal. lat. 1066 fol. 239r"
X Link 2025-12-05T22:00Z 729.8K followers, 42.3K engagements

"Mouse-Design Amulet Ring. Culture: Egypt New Kingdom. Period: 18th Dynasty Reign of Thutmose III. Date: ca. 14791425 B.C. Material: Gold and glazed steatite (soapstone). Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York"
X Link 2025-12-06T20:00Z 729.8K followers, 17.1K engagements

"Matriarch. Artists: Raven Skyriver and Preston Singletary. Culture: Tlingit / Contemporary Native American Art. Date: 2022. Material: Off-hand hot sculpted sandblast-patterned glass and metal stand. Collection: Stonington Gallery Seattle"
X Link 2025-12-07T16:30Z 729.8K followers, 23.6K engagements

"Le Chat Blanc (The White Cat). Artist: Pierre Bonnard Date: AD 1894 Material: Oil on cardboard Collection: Muse d'Orsay Paris"
X Link 2025-12-08T16:30Z 729.8K followers, 18.6K engagements

"Excavation of the Lamassu at a monumental city gate (Gate No. 3) of Sargon II's citadel Dur-Sharrukin (Khorsabad) Iraq. Excavation Date: c.18521853. Culture: Neo-Assyrian Empire c.721705 BC (Reign of Sargon II). (Victor Place archaeological mission; calotype by Gabriel Tranchand) Photo Credit: Collge de France Archives Fonds Maurice Pillet"
X Link 2025-12-08T20:00Z 729.8K followers, 16.2K engagements

"Silver Locket with Cupid Relief and Poetic Inscription. Inscription: 'Noe heart more trve then mine to yov' (original spelling of a phrase often modernised as 'Noe heart more true than mine to you'). Culture: England (Stuart Period) 16901700. Material: Die-struck silver. Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum London"
X Link 2025-12-09T01:58Z 729.8K followers, 13.5K engagements

"Homework from the 13th century. In 1956 archaeologists in Russia found birch bark drawings by a 7-year-old boy named Onfim who lived XXX years ago. Instead of finishing his alphabet homework he drew himself as a heroic knight spearing his enemies. He even labeled the figure "Onfim""
X Link 2025-12-09T08:52Z 729.8K followers, 123.3K engagements

"Saint Matthew Writing His Gospel. Culture: School of Landvennec Abbey Brittany. Date: Late 9th century early 10th century AD. Material: Ink and pigment on parchment. Collection: Bodleian Library Oxford"
X Link 2025-12-09T15:00Z 729.8K followers, 28.2K engagements

"Imagine an apprentice dropping a hammer and watching it fall for XX seconds. Founded by Greek monks in XXX AD and clinging to a sheer rock face at a height of 1200 meters its expanded over the centuries into a complex of roughly XX rooms--built without cranes. Just looking at it gives you vertigo"
X Link 2025-12-10T08:06Z 729.8K followers, 63.7K engagements

"Scenes from the film: Du Ct de la Cte (Along the Coast). Director: Agns Varda 1958. Location: Cte d'Azur France (Nice Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat). When the French Tourism Office commissioned this project in the late 1950s they had expected a sunny and cheerful promotional film to market the region; however when Agns Varda took up the camera she treated the shores of the Cte d'Azur not as a geographical paradise but as a sociological excavation site. The film positions the Riviera as a search for a modern "Garden of Eden" (Paradise). However in this paradise history is not a respected heritage but"
X Link 2025-12-10T18:00Z 729.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Du Ct de la Cte should be read not just as a travel documentary but as a cinematic essay seeking the truth behind the image. This short film deserves to be watched as one of the most unique examples of its genre with both its visual aesthetics (I particularly liked the Eastmancolor palette of that era) and the intellectual humor it contains"
X Link 2025-12-10T18:00Z 729.8K followers, 6724 engagements

"They deliberately scraped sections of the walls to create a fresh white canvas before painting using the natural bulges of the rock to give the horses 3D muscles. That's a mastery of perspective most of us attribute to the Renaissance but it actually dates back thousands of years"
X Link 2025-12-11T12:57Z 729.8K followers, 81.9K engagements

"The Kiss of the Oceans (Meeting of the Atlantic and Pacific) Commemorative Postcard. Date: c. 1920s (design c. 1915). Medium: Color lithograph on cardstock. Publisher: I.L. Maduro Jr. Panama"
X Link 2025-12-11T16:30Z 729.8K followers, 21.9K engagements

"If you play Dungeons & Dragons this object probably stops you in your tracks. It looks exactly like the "d20" youd roll for a critical hit in a Saturday night gaming session. But this isn't a modern plastic prop. Its nearly 2000 years old made of faiencea crushed quartz ceramic that (in certain techniques) self-glazes to create that vivid turquoise color. While the Romans loved gambling with six-sided bone dice this specific icosahedron was likely a tool for something much more serious: divination. In the Roman world people used "alphabet oracles" to solve their problems. This was essentially"
X Link 2025-12-12T00:06Z 729.8K followers, 67.4K engagements

"The word "oikos" is right there. Its actually part of the Greek root of our modern word "economy"-specifically oikonomia-which literally means "household management.""
X Link 2025-12-12T11:32Z 729.8K followers, 22.3K engagements